Anatol (name)
Anatol is a male given name of Greek origin. Its meaning is “the one from the Orient (Anatolia)” and is derived from the Greek ἀνατολή (“sunrise”, “Orient”). The French form is Anatole, the Greek Anatoli and the Russian Anatolij. The corresponding woman's name is Anatolia. Anatol rarely appears as a family name .
Name bearer
Historic time
- St. Anatol (Cahors) , Bishop of Cahors around 450, transferred to the Abbey Church of St. Michel zu St. Mihiel in 1253
First name
- Anatol Graf von Bredow (1859–1941), German general
- Anatol Feid (1942–2002), German priest and writer
- Anatole France (1844-1924), French writer
- Anatol Ljabedska (* 1961), Belarusian politician
- Anatol Locker (* 1963), German journalist
- Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), American mathematician
- Anatol Regnier (* 1945), German writer
- Anatol Richter (* 1970), Austrian athlete
- Anatol Rosenfeld (1912–1973), German literary critic
- Anatol Roshko (1923–2017), American physicist
- Anatol Stefanowitsch (* 1970), German linguist
- Curth Anatol Tichy (1923-2004), Austrian actor
- Anatol Vieru (1926–1998), Romanian composer
- Franz Anatol Wyss (* 1940), Swiss artist
stage name
- Anatol Herzfeld (1931–2019), German sculptor
family name
- Manuel Anatol (1903–1990), Spanish-French soccer player and athlete